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GARRETT G. FAGAN | LECTURE AT PSU SPRING 2015

This lecture examines an understudied aspect of Roman arena spectacles—evidence for stagecraft—and explores the reasons why the producers of games went to such lengths to theatricalize them.

Drawing on a wealth of iconographic, epigraphic, and literary evidence, Dr. Fagan surveys the scale and variety of stage sets, artificial scenery, and other apparatus used to enhance the spectacle. Not only were installations specifically built to accommodate sets (think of the Colosseum’s famed hypogeum) but amphitheatral staff were specially dedicated to overseeing their proper deployment.

Beyond the raw wonder stagesets elicited from spectators, they more importantly played an important role in making the violence of the games palatable and acceptable: the sets—along with the overall constructed environment, the costumes of the performers, the musical accompaniment, the added attractions (acrobats, animal performers, mock fighters, prize distributions)—set the brutality into an artificial and theatrical context for the spectators, and as such played an analogous role for the way violence is similarly framed in modern entertainment.

How to Stage a Bloodbath: Theatricality and Artificiality at the Roman Arena

Pollice Verso, Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1872. Oil on canvas. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum.

About Professor Garrett G. FaganDr. Garrett G. Fagan is Professor of Ancient History at Penn State University. His main research interests, Roman history and archaeology, have led to the publication of two mongraphs: Bathing in Public in the Roman World [University of Michigan Press, 1999] and The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games [Cambridge, 2011]. Dr. Fagan has edited or co-authored three other books, and

has numerous scholarly articles and chapters in print. He has appeared on the History Channel and on the acclaimed PBS science series NOVA. He has also produced three courses with The Teaching Company on the “History of Ancient Rome,” “Emperors of Rome,” and “Great Battles of the Ancient World.”

Tuesday May 19th | 6:00pm ::: Smith Memorial Student Union (SMSU) RM 327/8/9

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Letter from the Chair Tim GarrisonHappy Spring!

One of my responsibilities as Chair is to represent the Department at University preview days for prospective students and at orientation sessions. A common question I receive from parents and students is: “What can one do with a history degree?” There is a reason I have to answer this question over and over again. Unfortunately, in the past we yielded the floor to those who claimed that higher education was about preparing for a career, rather than preparing for citizenship and life. Moreover, we passively allowed others to promote a myth: that graduates in history are not prepared for the general workforce.

We have suffered from our unwillingness to fight this battle. As a result, student enrollments in history courses have declined at Portland State and across the country. Ironically, this has been happening at the same time that a very large portion of the American public has been fascinated with books, television shows, and films that are grounded on historical subjects. In short, historians and history departments must do a better job of explaining how a degree in our discipline does, in fact, prepare students for an array of rewarding (and, in many cases, well-paying) careers.

Setting aside our belief that colleges and universities should aim to prepare students for a full and complete life, we, as historians, know that we impart expertise and offer experiences that will benefit students in a wide range of occupational endeavors. As most of you who are reading this understand, a history degree provides, along with knowledge of the subject, the opportunity to develop skills in a number of areas, including data collection and analysis; expository, analytical, and argumentative writing; research methods and organizational practices; public speaking and presentation; and group coordination and communication. Recently, many of us have been learning how to provide our students with the ability to engage in digital research and presentation. We also help our students develop what I think is the most important job skill: the willingness and desire to work hard. I cannot think of many employers, in, say, business, who would turn away a prospective applicant with these capabilities.

In an effort to remind students that history is a preparation for life AND work, we have enhanced our website with quite a bit of information about the prospective careers for those who study with our department. I hope you will take a few minutes to examine this section of our website, and I urge you to contact me with ideas that will help us remind the public and our students of the heights one can reach with a history degree. You can help us, particularly, with stories of your own achievements.

Please drop me an email at timgarrison@pdx.edu to tell me where or how you are employed at the present. We will begin to post this information on our website and in future newsletters—with your consent, of course. We may even follow up with some of you to develop feature stories on you and your career path.

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3 EVENTS | SPRING & FALL 2015

SPRING 2015

SEE more EVENTS pdx.edu/history/events

LectureApril 2nd - 5:30pm | Smith Memorial Student Union 238Professor Catherine McNeur, Portland State University“Out of the Trash Heaps: Shantytowns and the Informal Economy in Nineteenth-Century Manhattan.” [info]

Art Exhibit February to April | Lincoln Performance Hall Exhibit Space Curated by PSU faculty Patricia Schechter and Sue Taylor “Lyric Truth: Paintings, Drawings, and Embroideries of Rosemarie Beck” [info] Lecture April 16th - 6pm | Smith Memorial Student Union 327/8/9 Professor Sheldon Garon, Princeton University“On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in World War II” [info]

Lecture May 19th - 6pm | Smith Memorial Student Union 327/8/9Professor Garrett Fagan, Penn State University“How to Stage a Bloodbath: Theatricality and Artificiality at the Roman Arena” [info]

PresentationMay 28th - 7pm | Smith Memorial Student Union 238Professor David A. Horowitz, Portland State University“Getting There: An American Cultural Odyssey ”

Friends of History Endowed Lecture October 6th - 6pm | Time & Location TBD James McPherson, Princeton University“Abraham Lincoln and the West”

FALL 2015

pdx.edu/foh/joinThanks to the generous support of our members, we are able to provide lectures, discussion groups, and other programming that speaks to a variety of scholarly interests, as well as scholarships and grants to further important research in history by Portland State University students and faculty members.

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An Interview with Catherine McNeur on Her New Book The Urban History Association (UHA) recently interviewed Catherine McNeur, our assistant professor of environmental and public history. Catherine’s Yale dissertation won the UHA’ prize for best dissertation in 2012. Her book, Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City, was published by Harvard University Press.

We thank the UHA for allowing us to reprint this interview.

UHA: How did you come to develop the two areas of specialization as a professor of environmental history and public history? And how do they work together in your current position?

Catherine McNeur: Prior to beginning graduate school in history, I worked for several years in historic preservation in New York City. Once I began graduate school, however, I focused primarily on environmental history, urban history, and American history more generally. When I saw the position posted at Portland State for someone who specialized in both public and environmental history, I was eager to apply. Portland State has a thriving public history MA program that draws students from around the country, many of whom find positions in the region. I’ve been having fun developing

public history courses with an environmental twist. This spring, for instance, I taught a course on historic preservation where we focused not only on the social, political, and architectural aspects of preservation, but also the environmental (heritage landscapes, superfund sites, and the adaptive reuse of buildings). I’m particularly excited about next spring when I’ll be partnering with the foresters at Portland’s Heritage Tree program to teach a public history laboratory course. We’ll be helping to bring attention to the program by researching the histories of the trees that have been saved, writing walking tours and brochures, and the like. Down the road I also hope to develop public history courses about environmental justice and the interpretation of superfund sites.

UHA: What was your path through graduate school to tenure track faculty? What elements of your scholarly and professional profile would you say were most valuable in securing your job?

CM: I think a fair amount of luck is involved with securing a tenure-track job these days. For the position at Portland State, specifically, I think it helped that I had background in both public history and environmental history. Besides that, I can really only speculate on what helped. I had gone on the job market the year before I got the job at Portland State. While I didn’t secure a tenure-track position, I was fortunate to get the Schwartz Postdoctoral Fellowship at the New York Historical Society and the New School. This gave me the chance to develop courses in urban environmental history and American food history and experience working with a range of different students. I also deliberately worked to secure a book contract soon after graduation and that may have helped with the process. It’s hard to say which ingredient was the most important but I certainly feel fortunate to be where I am.

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UHA: Tell us about your research and how you developed the topic for your dissertation, which won the 2012 Best Dissertation Prize from the UHA.

CM: Early on in graduate school, I took a research course with Joanne Freeman on the early republic. I was flirting with several possible topics but then had a fleeting memory of reading about New York City’s hog riots in Edwin G. Burrow and Mike Wallace’s Gotham. I found the idea of hogs on the streets of Manhattan amusing, as did my classmates when I floated this possible topic during discussion one day. My initial reaction that pigs were out of place in a city ended up fueling my larger project about how ideas of the urban environment and what properly belonged in a city changed over time. Unlike today’s enthusiasm over backyard chickens and rooftop beehives, the mid-nineteenth century saw a lot of backlash against urban agriculture. As I expanded the topic beyond pigs, I found some juicy stories about how various New Yorkers fought over the urban environment as they designed parks, sold horse manure to regional farmers, unearthed connections between corrupt politicians and corrupt food, developed shantytowns, and the like. By juxtaposing seemingly odd combinations of stories (excitement over using human waste as fertilizer alongside the development of Central Park, for instance), I was able to unearth larger themes about environmental justice, government power, and the transformation of nineteenth-century cities.

UHA: How did you balance the new, including stories about horse manure, with familiar topics like the development of Central Park? What was the process of developing this work — the scope, the stories, and the style? Who or what were your key influences? After graduating, what was your revision process like from dissertation to book?

CM: Even seemingly familiar stories—such as the Draft Riots or the creation of Central Park—can turn out to be novel when placed in a new context, such as the long history of environmental injustices involved in transforming the urban environment. As I planned out this book, a major goal of mine was to never write off elite New Yorkers’ goals for beautification in favor of the goals of poorer New Yorkers. I wanted to maintain some sort of balance so both sides could be better understood. This meant I have topics that range from park development and the planting of street trees to shantytowns and the boiling of slaughterhouse waste.

I also knew going into this project that I wanted to work on the antebellum city, as both urban and environmental historians typically give the period less attention. Many of the issues facing cities in the Progressive Era were similarly playing out in the pre–Civil War city, although different players posed different solutions.

As I turned the dissertation into a book, my main goal was to make my arguments clearer, fine-tune the narrative, and tap into more of the literature on urban environments and public space. I can’t express enough how much I benefited from the peer reviews solicited by the university presses I shared the manuscript with. That process was one of the most fruitful I’ve experienced as a scholar so far and I look forward to paying that forward in the future.

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UHA: Would you care to share any of those juicy stories to whet our appetites? And just how does one conceal a pig in one’s hoop skirt?

CM: One of my favorite stories in the book comes from an offal contract scandal in the early 1850s. Following the cholera outbreak in 1849, City Inspector Alfred W. White was eager to remove a range of “nuisance industries” from areas near residences in Manhattan. Seeing how Irish and German immigrants were profiting from the recycling of slaughterhouse waste by boiling down its component parts and then both selling them to local manufacturers and feeding them to pigs, White had this idea to get into the business himself. He simultaneously made it illegal for these small-scale operators to do business, while setting up a company that would work exclusively with the city. He became a secret partner in a waste-recycling company that he founded. They initially set up an operation on South Brother Island—a little-known, uninhabited island that still exists, just south of Riker’s Island—where he and his partners would ship the waste, process what they could sell, and then feed the leftovers to thousands of pigs on the beach so that it could be washed away at high tide. Things started going wrong for this company quickly, though. One partner took over the steamship they were using to haul the barges of offal, blood, and bones, and used it to host parties with a “number of loose women and common prostitutes.” Apparently the boat became known as the “North River Brothel.” This story goes on, involving farmers in Queens and what’s now the Bronx calling their business a nuisance, and the contract eventually becoming exceptionally lucrative. Overall, though, it’s a story that allows me to delve into the growing municipal power over the urban environment, those who lost out in the process, and what the corruption meant for the variety of waste-related problems facing the city. And, plus it’s just plain entertaining to think of an offal boat being used for scandalous parties.

The story about pigs under hoopskirts comes from a different, but related incident. In this case, in 1859 the municipal government waged the “Piggery War” on the offal-boiling industries where there were penned pigs in what’s now midtown Manhattan. Journalists from a variety of newspapers followed along with the health inspectors and police as they toured the facilities and homes of the proprietors. The newspapers reveled in stories of Irish women hiding pigs in their homes, whether under their beds or in their dresser drawers, in hopes of tricking the police. The New York Herald specifically noted that it was a “pity the ladies in the locality do not dress in the prevailing fashion”—in other words hoopskirts—because they could have hid them there. In this period when bourgeois womanhood was so intricately tied to parlors and domesticity, the idea that dirty livestock were allowed into these homes reinforced the idea that the Irish immigrants were completely different from the middle-class readers of these newspapers. To top it off, they were so unfashionable that they couldn’t even use a hoopskirt to hide an extra hog.

UHA: What is next for you in terms of research?

CM: I’m at this wonderful stage where I’m beginning to explore potential projects—small and large—that I might pursue. I’ve been so involved with the book project for the last few years that this summer is really my first chance to explore new topics in earnest. In general though, I’m looking to continue work in urban environments in the nineteenth century as well as ideas of environmental purity.

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7 CATHERINE MCNEUR | LECTURE AT PSU

Out of the Trash Heaps: Shantytowns and the Informal Economy in Nineteenth Century ManhattanThursday April 2nd | 5:30pm ::: Smith Memorial Student Union (SMSU) RM 238

History Professor Catherine McNeur will deliver a talk titled “Out of the Trash Heaps: Shantytowns and the Informal Economy in Nineteenth-Century Manhattan.”

As the number of immigrants arriving in Manhattan soared during the middle of the nineteenth century, shantytowns developed on the outskirts of the city. These communities were a common part of New York City’s urban landscape and marked the movable boundary between the city and its hinterland. They served as a partial, makeshift solution for the housing

crisis that crammed countless poor New Yorkers into the downtown tenements.

McNeur will discuss her research on these shantytowns, the people living in the communities, how they made ends meet, and how outsiders viewed the architecture and communities developing on the metropolitan periphery. McNeur will also discuss her newly published book, Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (Harvard, 2014), a recipient of the 2015 George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society of Environmental Historians. Her book chronicles the battles between New Yorkers in the nineteenth century over the direction their city was going to take and how they might define what it meant to be “urban.”

Catherine McNeur joined the faculty at Portland State in 2013 as an assistant professor of environmental and public history. With a bachelor’s degree in Urban Design and Architecture Studies from New York University and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in History from Yale, McNeur researches the environmental history of places often thought to be completely unnatural—cities.

She teaches courses on The Nature of American Cities, Food and Power in American History, Enviroment and History, and is teaching a course in Spring 2015 on Heritage Trees in Portland.

“…a scholarly history that tells an odd story in lively prose. This book implicitly alludes to the urban revival now stretching from Portland, Ore., to Portland, Me., but whatever your thoughts on brewpubs and bike lanes, you probably haven’t read a municipal history that has a mayor ‘ready to tackle the hog problem’…[Taming Manhattan] is a smart book that engages in the old-fashioned business of trying to harvest lessons for the present from the past. Best of all, a quiet rage animates Ms. McNeur’s writing, a dismay at the inequalities of the past that, she clearly believes, have survived into the present.”— Alexander Nazaryan, New York Times Book Review

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8 DAVID A. HOROWITZ | MULTI-MEDIA MEMOIR PREVIEW

David A. Horowitz will deliver a multi-media presentation as a preview to his newly released memoir.

Getting There: An American Cultural Odyssey (Inkwater Press, 2015) traces the sequence of momentous developments spanning the 1950s to the twenty-first century through the experiences and reflections of a young student, university professor, professional historian, journalist, and social activist.

Moving from the East and Midwest to the Pacific Coast and beyond, the narrative poses the challenge of retaining faith in the American Promise through a populist approach to politics and cultural expression that nevertheless upholds the critical values of the historian’s craft.

David A. Horowitz

About David A. HorowitzA native of the West Bronx and Long Island, New York, graduate of Antioch College, and a University of Minnesota Ph.D., David A. Horowitz began teaching U.S. cultural history at Portland State University in 1968. The author of America’s Political Class under Fire: The Twentieth Century’s Great Culture War and The People’s Voice: A Populist Cultural History of Modern America, he has published in The Historian, Journal of Southern History, Popular Music and Society, Oregon Historical Quarterly, and The Oregonian.

sponsored by

Thursday May 28th | 7:00pm ::: Smith Memorial Student Union (SMSU) RM 238

Copies of the book will be available at the author’s discounted price of $15 with a book signing prior to and following the presentation.

“A source of insight into a generation’s struggle to make America live up to its potential.” — Linda Gordon, Professor of History, New York University Recipient of the Bancroft Prize for Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limts (2009)

Getting There, a publication of Inkwater Press in association with the Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission, is also available in paperback and eBook format from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s Books, & other major retailers.

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9 FRIENDS OF HISTORY ENDOWED LECTURE | JAMES A. MCPHERSON

Abraham Lincoln was a product of the American West. He was born in 1809 almost as far west as one could go and still be within one of the United States. He grew up in the “Old Northwest” states of Indiana and Illinois, and represented the interests of that region in the Illinois legislature and in Congress. The main political issue in his rise to leadership of the Republican party and his presidential candidacy was the exclusion of slavery from the Western territories.

As president and commander-in-chief during the Civil War, much of his attention was focused on what was described as the war’s Western Theater. He also faced a major conflict growing out of the Sioux uprising in Minnesota during the war, and after the war he intended to take a trip to the Pacific Coast, a region of much interest to him but which he had never seen. Regrettably, he did not live to make that trip.

Abraham Lincoln and the West

Tuesday October 6th | 6:00pm ::: Lincoln Recital Hall (LH) RM 75

About James McPhersonJames McPherson is an American Civil War historian, and is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor Emeritus of United States History at Princeton University. He received the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. McPherson served as the president of the American Historical Association in 2003, and is a member of the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica. His forthcoming book, The War That Forged a Nation: Why the Civil War Still Matters, will be released in April.

“Abraham Lincoln towers over ‘The War That Forged a Nation,’ as he towered over his own era. Mr. McPherson is especially good—and consistently fascinating—on how the president’s thinking, both strategic and moral, evolved during the war, as he moved from using the emancipation of the slaves as one more weapon against the South to seeing it as the mainspring that drove the cause he led. Lincoln knew that American freedom was always imperfect, a work continuously in progress.”

— Richard Snow, The Wall Street Journal

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J. Kenneth BrodyObituaries

from the Sunday, November 23, 2014 issue of Oregonian, E9 J. Kenneth BrodyJanuary 11, 1923 - November 19, 2014

Joel Kenneth Brody was born January 11, 1923, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale in June 1943 on an accelerated wartime basis. From 1943 to 1946, he served aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Tillman DD641 in the Atlantic, European/ Mediterranean, and Pacific theaters of operation of WWII. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1949, Ken spent a year in his father’s Bridgeport law office and then ventured to the Northwest and joined the Seattle law firm Bogle, Bogle & Gates. In 1963, he entered the business world as a vice president and director of Evans Products, serving as executive vice president and director from 1965 until his early retirement in 1981.

Ken’s principal interest thereafter was in the study and writing of history. He was the author of The Avoidable War: Lord Cecil and the Policy of Principle 1933-1935 and its companion Pierre Laval and the Politics of Reality 1935 - 1936, which eminent Stanford historian Gordon Craig called “a distinguished contribution to the history of the period.” He was also the author of The Trial of Pierre Laval, the story of a 1945 French treason trial. His other works include Yale, A Celebration, an illustrated anthology; Arlington Club: Where Leaders Meet, a local history; and Really Us, A Paris Year, a privately published memoir. His latest work, The Crucible of a Generation: America Goes to War, 1941, is scheduled for publication in 2015.

In an active public life, he served as a director or trustee of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, the Metropolitan Family Service Foundation, the Portland Opera, Emanuel Medical Center Foundation, the Portland State University Friends of History, and the Oregon Human Rights Advisory Committee. He served on the Ainsworth Elementary School and Lincoln High School local advisory committees, chairing Lincoln’s committee. He was also co-author of the City Club’s 1978 report on the fiscal affairs of Portland School District #1. He was a longtime director and trustee of the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation, which built and maintains the U.S. Navy Plaza on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. For dedicated service to Yale University, he was a 2010 recipient of the university’s highest honor, the Yale Medal, making him only the second Oregonian so honored. He was a member of the Multnomah Athletic Club, Arlington Club, Yale Club of New York City, Mory’s Association, and the Condon Elks Club.

OBITUARIES | J. KENNETH BRODY

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George Anthony CarboneObituaries

George Anthony CarboneMay 16, l917 – January 3, 2013

Emeritus Professor of History George A. Carbone, born May 16, 1917, in Napa, California, died January 3, 2013, in Lake Oswego.

Dr. Carbone earned B.A. (1939), M.A. (1942), and Ph.D. (1947) degrees in history from the University of California, Berkeley. His focus was on the Kingdom of Italy’s formation during the 19th century. From 1942 to 1945, he worked in various wartime industries, while concurrently serving as an instructor and continuing doctoral studies at UC Berkeley. During 1945-1946, he held a history instructional appointment at Harvard while pursuing advanced research under mentorship of Professor Gaetano Salvemini—a longtime anti-Fascist refugee and Italian resistance leader—who served at that institution from 1930 to 1948.

In 1946, Dr. Carbone launched his academic career with an associate professor appointment at the University of Mississippi

in Oxford where he taught modern European history courses and directed many graduate student degree programs. His ongoing research undertakings into Italy’s national unification led to appointments as Fulbright Research Scholar and Professor at the Universities of Milan (1949-50) and Turin (1955-56), as well as to sponsorship of lectures delivered at the World Congress of Historians (Rome, 1955) and at the Universities of Pavia, Naples, and Bari. Concurrently, he published juried articles for various Italian and English language historical journals.

In 1961, Dr. Carbone joined PSU’s burgeoning History Department, thereby adding an instructional dimension to its curricular offerings that attracted substantial undergraduate and graduate student enrollments. While interacting with the Campus Study Abroad Committee, and utilizing private financial assistance to defray initial expenses, in 1962-63 he negotiated an agreement with the University of Pavia to establish a formal on-site Italian Studies Center for the Oregon State System of Higher Education (OSSHE). He carefully worked out appropriate student support arrangements.

Prior to the program’s scheduled inauguration in September 1963, Dr. Carbone—whose talents and experience were valuable in the Cold War era—received a private foundation grant to be based in Rome for five years in order to coordinate an array of research organizations. Under those circumstances, during the ensuing years while residing in Rome he provided supervisorial guidance to OSSHE Pavia Center directors selected from Oregon institutions. In 1968 Dr. Carbone returned to PSU and resumed an active on-campus teaching and research career.

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In 1970 the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs named Dr. Carbone to serve as Honorary Vice Consul in Portland The Italian government in 1976 further honored his meritorious service at ceremonies in San Francisco and Rome and conferred on him a Knighthood in the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

While enrolled at Berkeley, George and Marguerite “Meg” Roadani married in 1940. To this union, twins, Edward and Karen, were born. Edward died in 1989 and “Meg” died in 2000. His survivors are daughter Karen, (now Dr. Karen C. Hatch), emeritus professor at California State University, Chico, now residing in Colusa; three grandchildren and seven great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Community service featured prominently in Dr. Carbone’s worldview. In Oregon—and in Mississippi—he was often in demand as a public speaker for educational and service organizations. Dr. Carbone and Meg generously contributed their efforts to local Italo-American organizations’ activities, notably for “Cultura d’Italia” and the Renaissance Ball. As a long time “bookish” person, Dr. Carbone gathered an extensive collection of 1300 volumes and pamphlets dealing with Italian and European diplomatic history, most of which he contributed to PSU’s Millar Library. In retirement Dr. Carbone worked as a volunteer at the Tigard public library. (Victor C. Dahl, Professor Emeritus of History, February 14, 2013.)

OBITUARIES | GEORGE ANTHONY CARBONE | ROBERT EDWARD TAYLER

Robert Edward TaylerObituaries

Robert Edward Tayler March 17, l933 – January 29, 2015

Born in Boise, Idaho, Tayler graduated from Willamette and American Universities. He served in the U.S. Army from 1957-1959.

Robert was an emeritus member of Portland State University’s administrative faculty and taught courses in the History Department on American History. Over the more than 40 years of his academic career, he was appointed to administer many university offices, often “firsts” for the school. He served in the President’s Office as Director of Admission and as public relations liason to the city, was in charge of admitting foreign students to the university, and was the founding force for the PSU Development and Alumni Offices and the PSU Foundation.

Following his retirement, Robert returned to PSU for another ten years as director of the Athletic Department’s alumni Viking Club.

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Faculty NewsOxford University Press has published Jim Grehan’s Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (Oxford University Press).

In February 2015, Chia Yin Hsu attended a workshop at New York University's Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia titled “The Meanings and Practices of Race in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union,” where she presented her paper "Russian Resorts and European Leisure: Railroad Vacations, 'Native' Sights, and the Making of a Russian (Post-)Colonial Identity in Manchuria, 1920s-1930s."

John Ott’s new book, Bishops, Authority and Community in Northwestern Europe, c.1050-1150, will be published in the Fall by Cambridge University Press.

Laura Robson presented a paper titled "Peripheries of Belonging: WWI and the Making of Minority Identities in Iraq" at a conference in Abu Dhabi on “The Peripheries of World War I: New Spatial and Methodological Perspectives.”

In December 2014, Routledge published Marc Rodriguez’s Rethinking the Chicano Movement as part of its “American Social and Political Movements of the 20th Century.”

In December 2014, Japan’s Consul General of Portland presented Ken Ruoff with a commendation for improving the understanding of Japan and enriching the cultural life of Portland, both through the programs sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies and through his scholarship. Dr. Ruoff later offered two standing-room only lectures for PSU on the memorialization of World War II in Japan and Korea and will soon be presenting his research at the International House of Japan in Tokyo. His lectures are sponsored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Patricia Schechter is currently curating “Lyric Truth: Paintings, Drawings and Embroideries by Rosemarie Beck,” an art exhibit in the Broadway Lobby Gallery of Lincoln Hall. Be sure to visit the exhibit before it ends on May 3.

The University of Nebraska Press has released Friedrich Schuler’s new book, Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico: The Eyewitness Account of German Ambassador Paul von Hintze, 1912-1914.

Jennifer Tappan published “Blood Work and Rumors of Blood: Nutritional Research and Insurrection in Buganda, 1938-1952” in the International Journal of African Historical Studies. Her article appeared in a special edition on “Incorporating Medical Research into the History of Medicine in East Africa.”

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